Product Description: This fascinating chronicle of the world's great financial families offers candid profiles of the personalities behind seven legendary banking houses: Hambros, which now survives in name only; Barings, the oldest British banking dynasty; the Rothschilds, who amassed the largest private fortune in modern history; the Warburgs, a German dynasty of Venetian origin dating from the sixteenth century; the venerable Hermann Josef Abs, long-time chairman of Deutsche Bank; Lehman Brothers, formerly the oldest continuing partnership in American investing; and the eccentric and culturally savant financier Raffaele Mattioli, who headed Banca Commerciale Italiana...read more

Product Description: The Kardashian family is a contemporary cultural touchstone, recognizable throughout the world connoting warrantless celebrity, voluptuous beauty, and social media savviness. Amanda Scheiner McClain explores the Kardashians’ brand and celebrity via narrative discourse analyses of their hit reality television series, Keeping Up with the Kardashians, social media utilization, and popular press coverage...read more

Product Description: The development and integration of financial markets is at the forefront of academic and policy debates around the world. Nowhere is this more in evidence than in Europe where the integration of financial markets is a primary objective of the European Commission and fully supported by the European Central Bank...read more

Product Description: With global finance reshaping the world economy, this insightful new book provides a full account of the EU's financial integration strategy, together with a critical assessment arguing the case for social control over global finance...read more

Product Description: Between 1995 and 2007, financial elites in more than a dozen western European countries engaged in a cross-border battle to create some twenty new stock markets, many of which were explicitly modeled on the American Nasdaq. The resulting high-risk, high-reward markets facilitated wealth creation, rewarded venture capitalists, and drew major U...read more

Plumbers and Visionaries: Securities Settlement and Europe’s Financial Market is a path-breaking account of the history and future of the securities settlement industry in Europe. Written by experienced journalist and author, Peter Norman, this book takes a look at the less visible, but nevertheless critical segment of the global capital markets, following the development of securities settlement across Europe’s frontiers. It encompasses the free-wheeling days of the Eurobond market in the 1960s, through the growing integration of the European Union, to the highly regulated and efficient multi-trillion euro business securities settlement it is today. This book is the story of a financial sector that has grown hugely in importance in the 40 years since Euroclear, now the world’s premier settlement system for domestic and international securities transactions, was created to deal with a settlement crisis that threatened to smother the international capital market in its infancy. Beginning with the settlement crisis in the Eurobond market, this book describes how Euroclear and later Cedel, its arch-rival, were founded to deal with the problem. It follows the challenges posed by cross-border settlement for a growing range of securities when most financial infrastructures operated only within national frontiers. The book demonstrates how securities settlement became an issue for public policy after the stock market crash of 1987 and how the problems of cross-border settlement moved rapidly up the European policy agenda after the euro’s launch. More than a mere history, this book engages with the people who created the modern European securities settlement industry and taps into the often entertaining memories of its founding fathers. This book also focuses on the difficulties and challenges of cross-border transactions which have been identified as hampering Europe’s economic growth. It looks at the present state of the industry seeking a way forward so that the securities settlement infrastructure will better serve a single European capital market.

Product Description: By and large, EU financial integration has been a success story. This book tracks the EU's journey along the path to a single financial market and identifies the challenges and priorities that remain ahead. The study takes an IMF perspective, focusing on two main imperatives: growth and economic integration, on the one hand, and financial stability, on the other...read more

This book offers a broad and balanced introduction to financial markets across the world, describing the various financial sectors in clear, easy to understand terms. The book provides comprehensive coverage of commercial and investment banking, foreign exchange, money and bond markets, trade finance, stock markets, options, futures, and other derivatives products. It is the ideal primer for those who require a basic understanding of, or who are new to, the world of finance: for example, new recruits, students of finance, or students of economics, business, management, and accounting who require a grounding in the area. Companion Website: http://www.palgrave.com/business/valdez/index.htm

Product Description: By analyzing many facets of venture capital industries, this book substantially adds to the understanding of Europe's venture capital industries. It starts by discussing the microeconomics of fund raising, investment and exiting behaviour of venture capital companies...read more

Product Description: The existence of significant differences in the organization of the US and European financial markets prompts a number of important questions. Firstly, is it possible to determine the type of institutions that are more conducive to growth? Secondly, did the financial markets play a key role in securing the growth and prosperity of the US during the 1990s? A third issue is the effect of the recent changes in the organization of the financial markets...read more

European Financial Systems in the Global Economy provides an overview of sources of finance, types of financial intermediation and financial systems in Europe and their relative importance in the world economy.  It describes market mechanisms and prices and gives a broad introduction to the relevant regional financial and monetary issues (including those countries that will join the EU in the future) and makes an ideal primer for those new to the world of finance.

Product Description: The Economics of Money, Banking and Finance deals with international issues affecting financial markets. Taking a strong unifying theoretical perspective it provides a unique comparative survey of financial systems in the UK, Germany, France, Italy, Scandinavia and the USA...read more

Provides a unique comparative survey of financial systems in Europe and the US, unified under a rigorous theoretical framework.

Product Description: The start of the European monetary union gave additional impetus to the lively debate on the effects of monetary policy and the appropriate strategy for central banks. This book collects papers and comments by leading academics and central bankers such as Otmar...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Designed to assist managers in companies of any size to understand the nature of project financing in the new European Community, enabling them to anticipate the requirements of project finance institutions. Coverage includes new sources of project finance, the changing criteria of large project financial organizations, the most popular financing techniques, cross-border projects, Russian privatization, emerging markets and the distribution of resources across the EC...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Profound changes have taken place in the role of banking in developed countries in recent years and further important structural alterations will surely follow. This study of European banking surveys both the changing structure of the commercial banking industry and the strategic implications of these changes...read more

Product Description: This book provides a broad and balanced introduction to the principle Western financial makets and institutions. Unlike other books which tend to focus on an individual market, An Introduction to Western Financial Markets is international in scope...read more

Product Description: Here is a new book that enhances understanding of European financial management issues and the way they relate to the U.S. economy. Financial Management in Post-1992 Europe discusses the process of integration of European economies and helps researchers, academics, and practitioners arrive at optimal solutions in their decisionmaking relating to the European unified economy and capital markets...read more

Product Description: Offers readers a new perspective on consumer and retail conduct which interconnects the High Street with global, political and economic currents. Adapts issues of retail geography to the technique of international political economy (IPE) to demonstrate how the concept of financial power, the value of information, its application of technology and global production impact on how, where and when we shop...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)